wage-earning

Adjective

• of those who work for wages especially manual or industrial laborers
  • party of the propertyless proletariat- G.B.Shaw
    

• working for hourly wages rather than fixed (e.g. annual) salaries
  • working-class occupations include manual as well as industrial labor
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  propertyless , working-class , blue-collar